[meteorite-list] Ads Sales of Meteorites, yes, that is correct, I said Sales of " METEORITES" which is exactly what this list is about

[Brian Cox]

Hello fellow "METEORITE COLLECTORS  and DEALERS!
Yes, that is exactly what we are, Collectors and Dealers! We are not Editors 
for a magazine on Better Homes and Gardens, nor NASCAR, nor Playboy, nor 
Time, Newsweek, The Wall Street Journal, nor The Christian Science Monitor. 
We are a group that is interested in Meteorites. Let's get that Straight 
Now!
So, I ask myself and all of you. Why is it that there are a very few, a very 
small percentage that even bothers to spend their time looking at the post, 
whether it is from each individual email that comes from the list or the 
"Bulk Email" that I prefer which gives me the choice of scrolling down 
through all of the emails to see which I want to read first if I don't have 
the time to go through all of them. If anyone out there hates getting single 
emails so much and hates the Ad Sales and doesn't know how to change their 
settings for bulk emails from the list, please just ask and I assure you 
dozens of people will help you. If you can't change your settings or don't 
want to, just simply delete the Ad Sales email as was stated earlier.

I'm just including an email below that I sent to one of the angry anti-post 
people a few months ago and I have taken out any reference to said person, 
but have included the important details that I wanted to touch upon. We are 
a group of Meteorite Collectors and Dealers, and I don't think it's 
necessary for me to repeat that over and over again. The Ads and Sales post 
belong on this list. If it were an email list for coins, sea shells, 
minerals, old porcelain china, antiques and Native American Jewelry, I could 
see someone getting upset, but it baffles me why so many get upset over ads 
and Sales when there is "ABSOLUTELY NOTHING GOING ON THIS WEEK ABOUT SPACE 
OR METEORITES TO TALK ABOUT"  so, I rest my case.

We all want to buy and trade and sell meteorites, so let us just accept the 
Ads and Sales Ads as part of this hobby and live in peace.

All the best and I wish all of you clear skies and that a 100 kilogram 
meteorite will fall into your yard!!

Brian

IMCA # 6387

searchingforfun  is my ebay User Id

Below is my last email to a major complainer that I sent this email to a few 
months ago, that I felt represents the feelings from anyone trying to sell 
meteorites.
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As everyone has stated the past several weeks, you do NOT contribute 
anything to the list, but complaining about ADS, SALES. If it weren't for 
the dealers putting ads on the list about their websites or the collectors 
putting Ads on the list about their auctions there would not be a simple, 
easy way for collectors and other dealers to be aware of the sales unless 
individual emails were sent out or bulk emails were sent out to each person. 
I know Art doesn't send out an email to everyone that puts an Ad Sale on his 
list and rambles on like you do. He has common sense! Do you have so much 
time on your hands that all you can do is count ads on the list?

Is it because it's dark out now and you can't be out on your lawn spraying 
poor innocent children with your hose? You need to get some additional 
hobbies to take up your time of counting meteorite ads. Why don't you do 
something constructive instead of always picking a fight with me or 
Cottingham or The Hupes or whomever else you send your ridiculous emails to.

Why don't you volunteer to help the poor and homeless. I live downtown and I 
can help and volunteer with the homeless at shelters, with the park district 
or the anti-cruelty society or the  Zoo or with The American Cancer Society 
or the underprivileged or with HIV/AIDs patients or the elderly.

Why must you be such a mean and nasty person who has nothing better to do 
than count Ads posted for sales of "Meteorites" to the Meteorite List? Are 
you angry because you're not selling whatever else you may be selling or do 
you feel that because there are sales ads for, again, "METEORITES" on "The 
Meteorite List" that people will spend their money on meteorites and not on 
something else that you want them to buy from you.

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End of that email.